[ SECRET POST #3016 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3016 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 084 secrets from Secret Submission Post #431.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/vjWHoFo.png

[(Anonymous)]

Relax. It's not that big a deal. If you need to, eventually you can add a note that you had to go back and adjust some dates and such. Remember: this is FIC. If you're posting a bit at a time and it's LONG then you'll have stuff like this come up!

[(Anonymous)]

If your story is long and a lot of stuff is going on, I think a lot of people won't even pick up on those goofs. I certainly don't read fanfiction that carefully; I only notice mistakes if it's a story I've read more than once.

[kallanda_lee]

If no one is actually noticing, it's probably less of a big deal than you think.

[iceyred]

You're taking this way too seriously. Relax and have fun.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I'm willing to bet that most people won't notice. Look at all published fiction with shaky historical accuracy or authors who just sort of wing it. They get away with it all the time because most people don't know enough about any historical period to call BS.

But I get why it might bother you, OP. It'd bug me too, which is why I rarely write historical stuff even though I love it.

[(Anonymous)]

OP of #7, meet OP of #2.

Doing the hard stuff takes work. Welcome to it.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're posting any fic as you go, then you're going to have continuity errors, be it dates or descriptions or chronology or anything else.

Chances are though, than since your readers are also reading in the same episodic fashion as you're posting, those errors aren't all that glaring to them. If someone comes along and reads a big chunk of your fic in one sitting it may be more obvious to them, but by that point you'll also have enough of the fic posted to edit/revise for the continuity problems if you wanted to.

Honestly though, I don't think most fanfic readers are going to care about a few mixed up dates.

[solticisekf]

I prefer factually incorrect fics, strangely enough. I love when authors mention that they don't know much about the subject. Even when I notice mistakes. It fills my heart with hope that the fic is going to be fun, character driven and that it doesn't take itself too seriously. Medical stuff is ridiculous especially often, and I don't mind.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I never publish WIPs. I don't understand how other people do it.

[(Anonymous)]

I personally keep of file of Important Things, such as dates and whatnot, that I can refer back to as I write. Also, I often refer back to chapters I've already written to make sure I'm connecting threads correctly.

[(Anonymous)]

That's very cool. But don't you ever find you want to insert something later, like a thread you need you hadn't thought of, or add an emotional spin or whatever, or delete or add to adjust the pacing? I just can't imagine having the past acts of the story set in stone as I'm approaching the climax/end.

But it sounds like you're much more organized a writer than I am. I tend to have to jimmy things. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a bit confused - is this a fandom you know the canon for? If so, canon should answer some of those questions.

But historical pieces also don't have to be 100% accurate. Sleepy Hollow has an episode where a kid from the 1500s speaks Middle English, after all. (i cried.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: drawing of a room full of plants

Text: I started a fic in a time period I have no idea about and even though I did some research, it’s become appallingly obvious that I haven’t done enough of it. I’m 100,000 words in and so messed up on key dates and I had to retcon the characters’ canon birthdates because I forgot that if someone’s birthday is in June and so when they meet someone else in April, they’re going to be 15, not 16, on th meeting date. None of my readers have said anything and my beta knows even less about this time than me, but it’s been eating away at me. I’m either going to give up or edit all the beginning chapters.

Starting to remember why I don’t want to publish stuff for real (original fiction) because the standards (which I think are necessary!) are so frustrating to meet at times!

[lb_lee]

Don't worry OP. I've had to go and retrofit a series when I'd posted like, fifty stories. (Uh, a lot of them are very short, so it's not as big as it sounds.) And then I had to make an outline to cover all my bases. Even so, I expect to have to go on at least one other big retcon spree at some point.

It's kinda inevitable when you post things in order. It's that or complete the whole mammoth thing and only THEN start posting installments. (And even then, I assure you, you'll still have mistakes.)

--Rogan